Fake Democrats

I was wondering why the Dems were attacking Chavez over his Bush bashing UN tirade. Just wouldn't have anything to do with November right? From the American Thinker:

There is something very incongruent about the Democrats’ condemnations of Hugo Chavez. Coming from the leftists they are, they make too much sense to be taken at face value. Their reaction is driven by the same motives that undergirded their posturing just after 9/11. They also spoke well then, but they did not speak from the heart. As now, elections were fast approaching and they badly needed to appear patriotic. It did not last then, and it won’t last now.

Good. I thought it was just me.